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      DRAWINGS OF KNOLL CHAIRS

Last week I posted the materials that got me interested in knolling.  Here is a link to last week's blog.  From Wikipedia: "Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90 degree angles as a method of organization."  I went to the library to do some research and to learn more about Knoll Associates, a modern furniture company whose angular designs inspired the term.  It was a summery day. I went to the Art & Architecture Library in the Steven A. Schwarzman Building - the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. This is the book I was looking for.  Entitled Knoll Index of Designs, the book was originally spiral bound, but the spiral was cut...

I've been interested in 'knolling' recently.  Knolling is an organizational activity that was devised in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry's furniture fabrication shop.  Gehry was designing chairs for Knoll at the time, and Knoll designs are famously angular in an obsessive and almost otherworldy way.  I came upon the idea after doing some research into Tom Sachs, who uses knolling as a component of his studio process.  In Part II of this post, I go to the library to do some research, but first I wanted to share some background information about what I found out so far. From the Wikipedia page on Knolling:  Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90...